Spend money on public safety

Spend money on public safety

As I read the July 13 “San Diego’s Most Wanted” on 41-year-old Hector Careyo I did a double take.

He has been convicted of auto theft, felony domestic violence, possession of stolen property and dangerous weapons, drug-related offenses, and murder. What in the world are we doing looking for this chronic criminal? He violated parole. Parole?

Why in the world has this man not been executed or at least locked up for life in the name of public safety? Clearly he has proved that he is incapable of living in a civilized society.

I blame politicians. They have stopped executions and lightened sentences, and are about to release 30,000 more criminals onto our streets.

Money is wasted on frivolous things such as bullet trains to nowhere, but there isn’t enough money to keep the public safe from animals like Careyo?

Our priorities are severely messed up.

John Hoyt

La Mesa

Power rate plan seems backward

I read Morgan Lee’s article “Power Shift” (July 12) in which SDG&E and state legislators plan to provide financial relief to residents of hotter climates by reducing the rate per kilowatt hour charged on electric bills. To pay for this relief, families living in more mild coastal climates where energy use is lower would see a kilowatt hour rate increase.

While the idea of providing relief to low-income residents is a noble idea for SDG&E and legislators, the definition of a low-income resident has nothing to do with ZIP code. This misguided plan would have renters living in 600-square-foot apartments in Imperial Beach paying for the air conditioning of residents owning 3,500-square-foot homes in Murietta.

Charles Krokel

San Diego

Sentences don’t fit the crimes

How is it even remotely possible that a young man in college (“Election rigging brings prison,” July 16) rigs a mere student election, and Judge Larry Burns rejects the student’s request for probation and instead sentences him to one year in prison — and yet Christine Padilla runs a red light, kills a woman and almost kills a baby in a stroller, and gets two days in jail? (“Driver who hit, killed nanny gets probation,” June 8). And the mother of the baby had to fight during Padilla’s sentencing for the jail time? Is our justice system really that broken?

Jim Berg

San Diego

Bullfighting is graceless and crude

Let’s be honest. Bullfighting is a blood sport. Some devotees envision ballet, art, and poetry in the bullring. However, refinement rarely is appreciated in sports arenas.

Imagine fanatic football fans raucously cheering the thrill of a touchdown for its “ballet-like” grace. How about avid soccer fans wildly celebrating a well-aimed goal for its “artistry”?

These fans enjoy fierce competition in hard-won games, not tight ends in tutus. The reference to “poetry” in the brutal spectacle of bullfighting is absurd. In truth the bloody slaying of an animal for the masses is graceless and crude.

Jennifer Haven

Oceanside

Party differences

The letter on July 17 from Zack Dyl (“Difference between Dems and Repubs”) brings to mind something Charles Krauthammer said back in 2002: “Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” Mr. Dyl’s letter illustrates the second part and lends credence to the first.

Robert Harrington

Vista

Although I do agree that differences between Democrats and Republicans are increasing man-made problems in society, I see the rest of your comments differently. To me the difference between Democrats and Republicans are: If a Republican doesn’t agree with, or like, something, they choose not to participate. If a Democrat doesn’t agree with, or like, something, they figure nobody else should, either, and they cry and whine about it to try and get their way!